05 September 2024
Muscle Tono
This study in fruit flies finds a protein called Tono is key in myogenesis [muscle development]– Tono enables organelles of a muscle cell to mature and it senses mechanical forces, adapting gene expression [activity] to change how the cell responds
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- Image from work by Xu Zhang and Jerome Avellaneda, and colleagues
- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, IBDM, Turing Centre for Living Systems, Parc Scientifique de Luminy, Marseille, France
- Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Current Biology, August 2024
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